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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 1611 comments

This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today

submitted 16 hours ago • 46 comments

I don’t have the answers today, but, before I can move forward to the coverage that is going to be important in understanding Skrmetti and its consequences, I wanted to just lay out what I’m thinking about in the aftermath — and why. Here it is, tonight at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-t...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

How the fuck would ANY ONE know that's police?! Tell me. In fact, prove that they are. How does this not create the ability for random masked men to kidnap people into vans in broad daylight??

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

submitted 6 days ago • 763 comments

"You should be out here with us!"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 7 days ago • 325 comments

ICE officially lawless

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

What reason would the Secretary of Homeland Security have to suggest that they can remove the leaders Californians ELECTED?!?! They are using our state as a testing ground for their authoritarian fantasies.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

yep! unpaywalled:

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 10 days ago • 2261 comments

DHS is also lying about him being repeatedly told to back away. The video shows the men who pushed him don’t even open their mouths, they just grab him and get them out of the room without saying a word.

submitted 10 days ago • 108 comments

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

submitted 10 days ago • 262 comments

Donald Trump promised that any protests of his military parade will be met with "very heavy" force. Democracy is under attack.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

We know it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s easy to feel worn down by our democracy being chipped away. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. Look at this map of NO KINGS protests. There are OVER 1,800 in the US, South America & Europe! This is a GLOBAL stand. Join us on JUNE 14th for NO KINGS ❌👑

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This is good and pretty close to Pritzker’s call for mass mobilizations in April. Americans are not used to the level of civic resistance needed to take down a regime, but governors can do a lot to encourage it. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/10/g...

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 12 days ago • 1464 comments

Session is over part 2: what’s next. Rest, resist, protect your neighbors, just keep fighting.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Over 60 groups have been coordinating since December across LA as part of the Community Self Defense Coalition. They are on IG: www.instagram.com/communitysel... and you can donate to their ongoing work: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th... - Like I continue to say PEOPLE ARE ALREADY IN MOTION.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Trump invoked a rarely used provision that allows for the deployment of the Nat Guard if there is a rebellion against the U.S. gov. @nytimes.com: “No such rebellion is underway. …Americans in cities routinely cause more property damage after their sports teams win or lose.”

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

🚨I’m here with @RepLuzRivas, @RepNormaTorres & @RepLouCorrea at the Roybal Federal Building exercising our Congressional authority to investigate ICE’s inhumane detention of immigrant families—including moms & kids held after routine check-ins. No beds. No food. No water. We are demanding answers.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 13 days ago • 220 comments

Doechii the queen.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Trump wants tanks. We want democracy. On June 14, while he parades military might through D.C., we're rising up in 1,500+ cities to say: no thrones, no kings, no fascism. Power belongs to the people. Find an event near you to keep your power. Join us: https://www.nokings.org

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 13 days ago • 204 comments

It's a small footnote in MN's special session, but we saw a Senator offer multiple amendments seeking to roll back coverage and protections for trans folks - and I suspect we could see some more before this all wraps up. They might not move today, but we need to keep showing up for the work ahead.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is not okay

submitted 13 days ago • 206 comments

"Hiding out in an attic, I don't know, that sounds, that sounds not good, not good at all. And she didn't have her papers, got to have your papers, if you don't have your papers, you're not a country anymore, certainly not a reich, that's for sure."

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 14 days ago • 895 comments

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

African officials express concern that the nuclear armed, ethnically volatile former British colony is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster. #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 15 days ago • 357 comments

Dominican man thrown to the ground and arrested outside immigration courtroom just now, an activist, who is a US citizen was also taken away in the chaotic scene. A lawyer later tried to ask the remaining agents where the activist was taken. "you just arrested a US citizen which is illegal."

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

“Greetings from the nation as we shake the hands of time. They're taking their ovations but the vultures stay behind.” Quite. youtu.be/1r_i7-w6SdI

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DO0f... Starting with @l-toczylowski.bsky.social telling Andry Hernandez Romero’s story #freeAndry

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

“It’s still unclear why a teenager, who as….one of his attorneys noted has "no criminal history anywhere in the world", remains caged. The rich and powerful, on the other hand, are well aware that their freedom can be bought. Or.…achieved by pledging their undying loyalty to the president. “

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Of the 12 new detainees, 6 are women and 6 are men. Bellwood, Maywood, and Broadview PD are all on site now as well.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

submitted 19 days ago • 3358 comments

Yes, please! @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There's something you're all not seeing here. 1.) Numerical Superiority won this battle. No one is armed here except the local banditry. 2.) There is strength in numbers. 3.) A crushing numerical advantage is enough to break the backs and the morale of the enemy.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump. She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 20 days ago • 149 comments

Why aren’t Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst “you can die” bill?

submitted 20 days ago • 1669 comments

The real, ideological enemy isn't MAGA or ICE or Israel or Russia or etc etc etc. It's dehumanization. It's the idea that some groups of people do not deserve human rights and must be purged Anyone who follows these assholes into that cesspit has already lost

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments